generosity of their possessors. I have said virtue, wealth, and

generosity, because a great man who is vicious will be a great example

of vice, and a rich man who is not generous will be merely a miserly

beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing

it, but by spending it, and not by spending as he pleases, but by

knowing how to spend it well. The poor gentleman has no way of showing

that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred,

courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or